Unwanted activity/content that is usually of a promotional nature.
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How to tell whether spammers are bots or humans?
How can you tell if the people that are spamming your forum or website are in fact bots or human spammers?
Please note that the question is not about preventing spammers. It is to determine if the ...
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2answers
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Strange spam posts not making sense [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What kind of spam is this?
I'm running a web site with a forum where one small part is open for posting from unregistered users. The site uses captcha, but still some ...
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What are some internet trends that you've noticed over the past ~10 years? [closed]
I'll give an example of one that I've noticed: the number of web sites that ask for your email address (GOOG ID, YAHOO! ID, etc.) has skyrocketed.
I can come up with no legitimate reason for this ...
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2answers
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general questions about link spam
A CMS-based site I manage is suffering from a small but ominously growing number of almost certainly bot-emplaced, invisible spam links placed in registered-user-only shoutboxes and user forums. "Link ...
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4answers
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Mass Deletion of Spam Revisions in Mediawiki
Basically my 'private' mediawiki instance was about as secure as a toddlers piggybank. I've tightened it up now, but am left with about a hundred or so new pages and revisions generated by hundreds of ...
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3answers
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Comment spammer IP list?
Is there a public list anywhere on the web of IP addresses that have been identified as comment spammers?
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3answers
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How to display a directory without looking like spam
I need to list every city in a state (for instance, California), along with a huge list of automotive dealers per city. How do I do this on one page without looking like a link farm/spam page to end ...
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0answers
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What is the aim of this email? Is this a ping/sping? [closed]
I received this spam in my catch-all.
As a webmaster of the domain it was sent to, I am really curious what the reason for this mail is. It was sent to a non-existent user "tania" on my domain - here ...
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How to get ip-address out of SPAMHAUS blacklist?
I frequently read that it is possible to remove individual ip-addresses from SPAMHAUS blacklisting.
OK. Here is 91.205.43.252 (91.205.43.251 - 91.205.43.253) used by back3.stopspamers.com ...
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2answers
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Has anybody earned $0.25+ from each of a captcha (on your website) passing?
I am a real dummy in web monetizing schemes.
[ 1 ] informs that a captcha vendor:
"charges a fee of about 25 cents to 50 cents for each form that is filled out using a Type-In ad [captcha]... ...
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4answers
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Is it positive or negative for the average website to allow search engines to index user comments?
I've been trying to answer this question myself by researching and searching on google but I haven't been able to come with a final answer.
I have some hypothesis I would like share anyway:
The ...
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2answers
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Localized CAPTCHA
What are effective CAPTCHA solutions that can have localized description, and CAPTCHA text itself is either language-neutral, or can be localized (for Polish language)? It is to be used to protect a ...
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1answer
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Google spam report, have they ever punished a bad site you reported?
You have reported a bad site on Google Webmaster Tools SPAM report.
Assuming you are sure it was a bad site, did you see Google punishing it or doing something after your report?
Thanks
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3answers
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Tons of spam on phpBB even with recapcha enabled [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
I am running a phpBB forum where the requirements were that users shouldn't have to sign up in order to post. They ...
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10answers
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How can I prevent my mail from being classified as spam?
My company sometimes send mail, but it usually goes to "spam" folder in gmail. The email includes only a few sentences, without any links or images. Just plain text. How can I fix this? (Notice that I ...
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2answers
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How are spambots registering on my website?
I have a forum that's getting a bunch of spam bot registrations.
Here's what's happened:
lots of spambots
added static logic question (as a picture), static math question, honeypot field
still lots ...
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3answers
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How do spambots work?
I have a forum that's getting hit a lot by forum spambots, and of course the best way to defeat something is to know thy enemy. I'll worry about defeating those spambots later, but right now I'd like ...
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4answers
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Recommended Spam Best Practices [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
Are there any recommended admin tools or interfaces for reviewing and moderating spam on a community-driven UGC site?
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1answer
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How to configure comment notification such that no emails are sent in case of spam?
I have a drupal 6 site running with blogs on it. I use the comment notify module to implement wordpress-like notification of new comments and the antispam module for keeping the spam off the site.
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6answers
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Safe way to send thousands of promotional emails
My new partner has an email list with over 1 Million email addresses for targeted traffic (no spam... only genuine subscribers from his last startup )
But now I have a problem.. how can I sent an ...
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4answers
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Emailing all site users
I'm going to be emailing all of my site users to update them on recent developments and remind them to come back to the site. Are there any special precautions I should take. I was going to do this ...
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1answer
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Are there other “approval” services for other email providers, like SenderID for Hotmail?
This question comes from: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/695/how-to-avoid-hotmail-live-rejections-for-legit-large-volume-emailing
I never knew about this for Hotmail and I'm wondering ...
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3answers
179 views
Free spam blocker service [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
Is it possible to get a free and good spam blocker for your website?
I would really like to avoid having to serve ...
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4answers
5k views
How to avoid Hotmail/Live rejections for (legit) large volume eMailing?
While qualifying eMail for Spam, Hotmail/Live checks the historical records of numbers of eMails sent by a sender (FROM, eMail Server, IP, etc.). Some times, perfectly valid bulk eMails that are not ...
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1answer
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Anywhere to get a list of referrer spammers?
I do my own log processing using my own self-written analyzer. That means I have to deal with the continual nuisance of referrer spammers. Is there anywhere I can get an up-to-date list of referrer ...
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Way to list “Contact Us” email address on web site, yet reduce likelihood of spam?
What's a good way to list a "Contact Us" email address on a web site, while reducing the likelihood it will get spammed?
Is putting the email address in an image the best technique, or are there ...
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1answer
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Getting on mediawiki spammers list?
I am setting up a test site which I WANT to get spammed by WIKI spammers, ie those spambots that run rampant on a wiki site filling it up with junk data... How do i get on one of those lists?
